OpenGL 2.0: Chasing DirectX

Posted by michael on Tuesday November 12, 2002 @12:52PM from the etch-a-sketch dept.

MJ writes "Is OpenGL 2.0 All That? Hopefully you will be able to answer that yourself after reading this article from XtremePcCentral. They have cool looking leap frog graphics with lots of arrows and a quote from John Carmack, what else could you ask for? Robert Richmond does a great job of delving into this subject. Carmack says, 'The implementation went very smoothly, but I did run into the limits of their current prototype compiler before the full feature set could be implemented. I like it a lot. I am really looking forward to doing research work with this programming model after the compiler matures a bit. While the shading languages are the most critical aspects, and can be broken out as extensions to current OpenGL, there are a lot of other subtle-but-important things that are addressed in the full OpenGL 2.0 proposal.'"

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